Written for one cello, one dancer with heartbeat sensor and electronics, (in)sensibilis is a work in open form, where the heartbeat serves as the guiding thread of the performance: they are transformed into score, sound, body movement and light.

This is not a piece about (im)mortality, but rather about the desire for observation and awareness of the pulse, devoid of judgments, similar to a meditative state.

Quero ir is a music work for soprano and fixed media, which uses the homonymous poem by the soprano Beatriz Ramos. The sounds of spoken, sung and whispered voices present in electronics came from recordings of the poem made with Beatriz.

The use of these recordings is crucial for the work's universe, where the electronics and the singer are offshoots of each other, until it becomes ambiguous to discern the sound origin, leading us to assume they are one.

Pavão is a project for real-time multimedia and flexible instrumentation. The performer is asked to improvise under fragments (slightly worked) of a popular Portuguese folk song: "Antoninho, como criança (O Pavão)", which was sourced from Cancioneiro Popular Português, collected by Michel Giacometti and Fernando Lopes Graça.

Ideally, the score fragments are chosen in real-time by a second person, however, the piece can also be performed in solo, making use of a programmed sequence. In this way, the score has a part that is generated in real-time. The performance results in the growth of a tree, which is occasionally briefly interrupted.

damasco roxo is a composition for euphonium and fixed media based on the folk song "Indo o Lavrador à Noite," sourced from the Cancioneiro Popular Português collected by Michel Giacometti and Fernando Lopes-Graça. The electronic part was created by sampling recordings of this melody, its text, and free improvisations about it by the jazz singer Maria Inês Gouveia. The euphonium line is also based on the folk song, aiming to explore the various timbres and registers of the instrument while establishing a connection with the vocal elements present in the tape.

(this work was composed at the request of Álvaro Valente da Silva as part of his master's thesis).

Once Upon a Tree as composed by using and mixing musical materials created until July 2023 from the tree-dimensional installation.

In short, the sound objects consist of manipulated samples from leaves and wood sound recordings. It is composed in ambisonics – 3rd order, keeping in mind the tree's structure and the 360-degree stop-motion videos created for the installation.

frutos de sombra is a work for soprano and piano based on the poem "Rotina" by Eugénio de Andrade.
This poem is part of the book As mãos e os Frutos.

(this work was commissioned for the project O Caderno de Eugénio by Duo Interdito)

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hesitações de murmúrios is a work for string quartet based on the Portuguese folk song “Levanta-te Mineta”.

The most obvious relationships between the music written by me and the folk song are found in the character: hesitações de murmúrios is like a murmur full of hesitations, like a word or a sentence that we silence halfway through, like someone waking us up from a restful sleep, like someone asking for alms quietly.

(this work was commissioned by Quarteto Euterpe)

Nós e as Pedras is a short movie by João Castro e Cunha and Maria Cândida Ribeirinha, made during their Master in Cinema at ESMAD.

Golden Minutes is a film directed by Saulius Baradinskas, with original music by Rob Meyer.

During the program Regards Croisés by the Festival International Music & Cinema Marseille 2022 a new composition was created for the cine-concert.

(this new score was created in collaboration with Elie Remfort-Aurat and Felipe Aryani)